Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-ashlar-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brook Cottage, 10, Main Road, Little Gransden, SG19 3DN
- OS grid reference
- TL 273 545
- Coordinates
- 52.1747, -0.13894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the east side of Main Road in Little Gransden. It is timber-framed with roughcast rendered walls and a long straw thatched roof, which is half-hipped at the east end. A ridge stack has been rebuilt above the ridge. The cottage has a gable end facing the road. The layout is of one storey and an attic. On the south side are two modern wood casements, one on each side of a gabled, thatched porch. An attic casement and two pentice boards are visible on the end facing the road.
Local climate
Brook Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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